Chester Allan Poage (1980–2000) was an American man who was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by three men in Spearfish, South Dakota, on March 13, 2000. Elijah Page, Briley Piper, and Darrell Hoadley were convicted of the torture and murder of Poage. Page and Piper were sentenced to death, while Hoadley was sentenced to life in prison. Page was executed by lethal injection on July 11, 2007, becoming the first person to be executed in South Dakota since 1947. Piper remains on death row, and is the only person left on death row in South Dakota.i
i Murder of Chester Poage - Wikipedia (2023). Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Chester_Poage (Accessed: 2 March 2023).
Briley Piper. ALS. Pmk: 06 OCT 2006. SEALED. Contents unknown. Pristine.
The horrific crime saw Piper and accomplices Elijah Page and Darrell Hoadley decide to ransack their friend Poage’s Rapid City home one night in March 2000. They enticed Poage to page’s home, where he was threatened with a gun, knocked unconscious and tied up. When he came-to, Poage was made to drink acid mixed with crush pills and beer. Piper, Page and Hoadley then stripped Poage naked, before burying him in a snowy creek during freezing weather. Poage managed to start running away, only for his torturers to catch up with him, and begin stabbing him in the neck and head. The stricken victim begged to be taken home to die – only for the twisted trio to pick up rocks and stone him to death.i
Briley Wayne Piper (born March 20, 1980) grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. When he was 13, he was arrested for allegedly grabbing a woman and was also arrested for assault after robbing a classmate at knife point. Prosecutors argue Piper was the ringleader of the group and was good at manipulating people. Piper pleaded guilty to Poage's death in January 2001, waiving his right to have a jury determine his sentence. Judge Warren Johnson sentenced him to death on January 19, 2001.
Piper appealed his conviction, and in 2009, the State Supreme Court overturned the death sentence, arguing that a jury should decide his fate. The jury sentenced him to death in August 2011, with the sentence being upheld in 2019. With the execution of Charles Russell Rhines on November 4, 2019, Piper is now the only person left on death row in South Dakota. My research shows that an execution date has not been set. He remains incarcerated at South Dakota State Penitentiary awaiting his necktie party.ii
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i Torture killer who made boy drink acid then stoned him begs to be spared death (2020). Available at: https://metro.co.uk/2020/10/05/torture-killer-who-made-teen-drink-acid-before-stoning-him-to-death-begs-to-be-spared-execution-13375109/ (Accessed: 2 March 2023).
ii Murder of Chester Poage - Wikipedia (2023). Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Chester_Poage#Briley_Piper (Accessed: 2 March 2023).